While I steer away from BookTok YA Recommendations, I had to give Legendborn a go. I went in sceptical, but came away pleasantly surprised. While I didn’t love every aspect, the overall experience was engaging enough to win me over—and it’s definitely one I’d recommend giving a try.
This month’s book club pick was The Lagos Wife by Vanessa Walters. Promising the tension of a thriller, it instead left me unsettled for unexpected reasons—caught between flashes of ambition, discomfort, and frustration. I can’t say this was a story I enjoyed reading.
A great adaptation doesn’t recreate every detail — it preserves the feeling. Project Hail Mary does exactly that, capturing the heart, humour, and hope of the story while transforming it into a cinematic experience. In this post I explore the rare case where both book and film stand strong, complementing each other perfectly.
We start April with a review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo. A novel that is gripping, messy, and frustrating in equal measure. In this review, I reflect on a novel that promised an exploration of ambition and desire but slowly unravelled.
We end Women’s History Month with a review of Nightbloom by Peace Adzo Medie, a quiet yet devastating exploration of female friendship. Sharp, restrained, and emotionally attentive, Medie shows how class, silence, and survival strain friendships between women, while still shaping the course of a woman’s life in lasting ways.
The 2026 Wuthering Heights takes bold creative liberties, streamlining Emily Brontë’s story into a passionate, visually stunning dark romance, while the book is a dark, layered gothic epic about generational trauma. In this post I explore why I don’t believe they should be compared and what this ‘adaptation’ means in the world of creativity.
In Cursed Daughters, a family curse supposedly dooms the women of the Falodun family to failed love. But beneath the supernatural premise lies a sharper story about generational trauma, societal pressure, and inherited expectations. A compelling novel that raises fascinating questions about womanhood, family, and the cycles we struggle to break.
Continuing our month of love, I delve into a BookTok sensation. Reading The Love Hypothesis far after the initial hype left me with mixed impressions. While the writing and pacing didn’t always land for me, the humour and emotional beats in the final third were engaging. It’s a light, fun accessible romance that improves as it goes with a satisfying conclusion.
We begin our month of love with a critical look at The People We Meet on Vacation as both novel and film. A movie I watched on a whim, this post is an exploration of why the film feels emotionally lighter than the novel, how major plot changes reshape Poppy and Alex’s relationship, and which version hits home for me.
One year, one hundred posts, and countless lessons later, In Novel company is a permanent fixture in my life. What started as a whim became a commitment, a challenge, and a creative home. This blog has shaped how I read, write, and think — and I’m so excited to share with you how this year of blogging has gone.
